一周前,我在马萨诸塞州的波士顿出席了研究图书馆协会的半年会。研究图书馆协会由北美119个最大的研究图书馆馆长组成,其中大部分来自美国,其余来自加拿大。历时三天的北美会议的主要议题就是我今天演讲的题目——数字图书馆。这个话题,以及诸如“信息高速公路”、“全球交互网络”等词语,已经引起了美国公众,商界,研究和开发部门,以及大学 A week ago, I was in Boston, Massachusetts attended a half-year meeting of the Association of Research Libraries. The Research Library Association consists of the directors of the 119 largest research libraries in North America, most of them from the United States and the rest from Canada. The three-day North American conference’s main topic is my topic today, the digital library. This topic, along with terms such as the “Information Highway,” “Global Interaction Network,” has drawn the attention of the U.S. public, businesses, research and development, and universities